🔻 Human Rights Organization for Sport, in a post on its Instagram page, reported that 7 Iranian athletes are at risk of execution. Based on reports from this organization, Ali Pishavarzadeh, Maryam Hadavand, Ehsan Khodadi, Binyamin Nagdi, Ehsan Hosseini-Pesarlo, Taraneh Rahimi, and Mohammadjavad Vafayi Sani are athletes whose lives are at risk in prisons of the Islamic Republic.

🔹 Ali Pishavarzadeh, 28, a former athlete in swimming and water polo from Gilan, was sentenced to death in Mordad 1405. According to reports, after his arrest during the National Revolution of Iranians in Dey 1404, he was subjected to torture and forced to make coerced confessions. There are also concerns about his deprivation of access to a lawyer and serious violations of the right to a fair trial.

🔹 Maryam Hadavand, a 42-year-old mountaineer, was arrested during the protests of Dey 1404 and sentenced to death in April of that same year. Human rights groups have expressed concern about the course of her trial, including deprivation of access to an independent lawyer.

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